Site Plan

The project falls under Part 3 Group C of the National Building Code. The major challenge of the project was the owner's requirement to fit 200 rental units in order to meet their revenue expectation, along with an Underground Parkade for each building to meet the city's parking area requirement. Failing to achieve that would have resulted in the cancellation of design approval. However, we were able to accommodate 207 units following appropriate building codes and by-laws through mindful arrangement of corridor/common space and personal living space ratio.

Site Elevations

Each unit has a private amenity space of 5 sq.m. One of the buildings required one firewall as the total length of the building exceeded the building code requirement. As per the Local building code, the firewall was designed to be constructed of concrete block masonry with a double passage door in the corridor. The buildings are designed with a flat roof in order to achieve maximum units under building height restriction. The roof joist was kept flat and the roof was sloped using a roofing insulation package.

Construction Phase

During construction, the biggest task was to coordinate Architectural drawings with other disciplines such as Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Security, and Landscape. I was able to successfully manage the coordination between construction RFIs and deal with the workability of efficient construction with design requirements. Reviewing all Site instructions and shop drawings in a timely manner was a critical task because the construction schedule was tight and the need to align with city requirements was essential to ensure the inspections were scheduled without any revisits.